Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
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Hi Ted..
Just wondering what version of flash player do you have ?
I have http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ - 10,0,42,34 installed
Ian
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
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Forgot to say.. that the lady speaks fine for me.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Ian Porter ian@codingfriends.com wrote:
Hi Ted..
Just wondering what version of flash player do you have ?
I have http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ - 10,0,42,34 installed
Ian
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
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Ah, good! Then that may well be the problem: On my Debian Etch (using your URL) I get version 9,0,48,0 of flash player (and it turns out that on my Debian Lenny I don't seem to have it at all). The version on Windows IE which works is 10,0,42,34 the same version as you have.
Now to try to upgrade flash-player -- I recall now that I've hit a blockage in the past with trying to upgrade the Etch version. I never managed to work out where the tangle was; now to try again ... Thanks for the info, Ian! Ted.
On 13-Jan-10 20:34:04, Ian Porter wrote:
Forgot to say.. that the lady speaks fine for me.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Ian Porter ian@codingfriends.com wrote:
Hi Ted..
Just wondering what version of flash player do you have ?
I have http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ _ - 10,0,42,34 installed
Ian
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
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She's rather sweet and cute!
worked fine on ubuntu 8.04 firefox 3.0.17 and whatever flash is installed with current updates haven't tried it on anything else
james
2010/1/13 Ted Harding Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk:
Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
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(Ted Harding) wrote:
Greetings Folks! A friend recently sent me the following URL:
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
What *should* happen (and happens when I open it in Win IE) is that the main box (with the panel of boxes below it) should show a face (female in the first instance) which is animated (e.g. if you move the mouse-pointer over that window the eyes will follow it); and, when you enter some text in the "Enter Text:" box then click "Say It", the mouth-parts move and you will hear that text spoken. (The other boxes below the main window let you choose the regional accent and speaker, etc.).
However, on my Debian Linux (Etch or Lenny) with Firefox there is no face in the window, and when I click on "Say It" all I get is a pop-up which says "It is not ready yet".
Does any of you succeed in getting this to work as described in Linux? If not, I wonder why not.
I wo9nder whether I have sufficient resources of Java or PHP installed, but not having hit such a problem before I'm not sure whdether that is a good direction to be hunting in.
Any comments or advice welcome! With thanks, Ted.
Works fine here with latest Ubuntu and Firefox 3.5.7
Cheers
ian
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